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Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Old Rabbins have a Notable Passage; That the Psalm relates to the World to come, and the Age wherein the People of God shall enjoy an entire Sabbath, which will be, the days of the Messiah.
THe Old Rabbins have a Notable Passage; That the Psalm relates to the World to come, and the Age wherein the People of God shall enjoy an entire Sabbath, which will be, the days of the Messiah.
The Truth is, we have here, as Dr. Allix observes, a prophecy of the Happiness to be enjoyed by the Jewish Nation in the Great Sabbath, whereof the Apostle speaks to the Hebrews. GOD promises here, to give them the Messiah for their King, after the Destruction of the Antichristian Powers. Compare the fourteenth verse, with Isa. LXV. 20. Probably David might write the Psalm, after the Lord had given him such Rest round about from all his Enemies, that he concluded he should be able to subdue those who should hereafter venture to oppose him.
10 Onicorns are a Fabulous Animal; we'll keep the Hebrew Name o Reems, until we are better agreed about the true English of it; which Bochart will have to be the Arabian Wild-goats.